Re: Disable --whole-archive when using convenience archives

[Ralf Wildenhues]

[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general/10586 ]

Hello Alon,

* Alon Bar-Lev wrote on Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 08:00:19PM CET:
> It is find if you don't want to solve this, but please acknowledge
> that you don't.

> So far I did not get any response regarding this issue.

I'm really sorry I dropped the ball on this for so long.

> >> /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
> >> -prefer-pic -g -O2  -rpath /usr/local/lib -static  -o liba.la
> >> liba_la-a.lo
> >> libtool: link: warning: undefined symbols not allowed in
> >> i686-w64-mingw32 shared libraries
> >> libtool: link: i686-w64-mingw32-ar cru .libs/liba.a  liba_la-a.o
> >> libtool: link: i686-w64-mingw32-ranlib .libs/liba.a
> >> libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "liba.la" && ln -s "../liba.la" 
> >> "liba.la" )
> >> /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link i686-w64-mingw32-gcc  -g -O2
> >> -module -shared -avoid-version -no-undefined -export-symbols
> >> ./libb.exports  -o libb.la -rpath /usr/local/lib b.lo liba.la
> >>
> >> *** Warning: This system can not link to static lib archive liba.la.
> >> *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when
> >> *** you link to this library.  But I can only do this if you have a
> >> *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have.
> >> *** But as you try to build a module library, libtool will still create
> >> *** a static module, that should work as long as the dlopening application
> >> *** is linked with the -dlopen flag to resolve symbols at runtime.
> >> libtool: link: i686-w64-mingw32-ar cru .libs/libb.a .libs/b.o
> >> libtool: link: i686-w64-mingw32-ranlib .libs/libb.a
> >> libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "libb.la" && ln -s "../libb.la" 
> >> "libb.la" )
> >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/alonbl/tmp/xx/libtool'

I can reproduce this issue with your example tarball, thanks.  At a
glance it looks like a libtool bug to me, but I'm not sure what would be
the right thing to do (without setting deplib check to pass_all for
mingw).

Thanks,
Ralf